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Sustainability and the problem of consumption

Witt, Ulrich - 2011

individual welfare would be directly affected by policy measures designed to make consumption sustainable. Such policy measures … are likely to also trigger indirect welfare losses by negative employment effects. The policy debate therefore needs to … pay attention to both direct and indirect welfare effects. As a concrete proposal a redesign of consumption taxes is …

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The dynamics of consumer behavior and the transition to sustainable consumption patterns

Witt, Ulrich - 2011

Strong growth in disposable income has driven, and is still driving, consumption to unprecedented, but not sustainable levels. To explain the dynamic interplay of needs, need satisfaction, and innovation underlying that growth a behavioral theory of consumption is suggested and discussed with...

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Role models that make you unhappy: Light paternalism, social learning and welfare

Cordes, Christian; Schubert, Christian - 2010

appear to be wasteful in terms of well-being or welfare. Within settings displaying preference endogeneity, it is however …

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Binding Customers to Project Networks – The Case of Content Production for Television

Sydow, Jörg; Manning, Stephan - 2011

This paper contributes to the study of projects networks - as a particular type of interorganizational networks - by looking into the mechansims that are able to bind or even lock-in customers into interorganizational relations. The study is set in the field of television production

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Chinese and South Korean Views on Accepting Bribes : An Empirical Study

McGee, Robert W. - 2017

One might think that bribery is always unethical. Studies by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development discourage the practice and a number of other studies have viewed bribery in negative terms. However, a closer examination of the issue reveals that the question of whether...

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Social networks and choice set formation in discrete choice models

Wichmann, Bruno; Chen, Minjie; Adamowicz, Wiktor - In: Econometrics : open access journal 4 (2016) 4, pp. 1-28

explore the properties of our models and evaluate the extent of “errors” in assessment of preferences, economic welfare …

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Consumption patterns under a universal basic income

Garcia-Murillo, Martha A.; MacInnes, Ian - In: Basic income studies : BIS ; an international journal … 16 (2021) 2, pp. 257-298

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Susceptibility and influence in social media word-of-mouth

Claussen, Jörg; Engelstätter, Benjamin; Ward, Michael R. - 2014

Peer influence through word-of-mouth (WOM) plays an important role in many information systems but identification of causal effects is challenging. We identify causal WOM effects in the empirical setting of game adoption in a social network for gamers by exploiting differences in individuals’...

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Price discrimination and fairness concerns

Englmaier, Florian; Gratz, Linda; Reisinger, Markus - 2012

We analyze the profitability of third degree price discrimination under consideration of consumers' fairness concerns within an experiment and explain the results within a theoretical framework. We find that with an increase in the price differential negative reciprocal reactions by...

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Consumer Utility, Capital and Fair Profit Margins in Insurance

Ward, Brett - 2023

Observed competitive market profit margins in insurance have generally exceeded what is considered fair being the CAPM adjustment for risky loss cashflows. This potential ‘missing link’ has attempted to be explained by either risk, capital or frictions that are unrecognised by the theory. It...

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